informing and fighting back against education overreaches to save hearts and souls
Let Me Introduce You: The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is half owner to the copyrighted Common Core State Standards. This is well documented, so I won’t elaborate. However, did you know there are a small number of our neighbor States across America who are the ‘innovation lab’ participants? Yes, that’s correct. Certain […]
Continue ReadingIf you’ve been following the news in NC, you are aware we have a “Review Committee” currently studying the Common Core Standards. IF you’ve not been following the NC events, you should..opportunities to hold those in charge accountable for ridding us of the CCSS are abundant. Quick review: First up, the way in which NC […]
Continue ReadingI have a question for you. Have you heard of the new book “A is for Zebra?” I got a bit of a look at the book thanks to a Twitter post from “Wired”. Here’s a screen shot I took, please click on it to enlarge it so you can get the gist of what […]
Continue ReadingHave you heard of “Springboard”? According to the ‘College Board’s’ website, the product line is a foundation. The description also goes on to tell you how great it, how it’s been proven, and so on. (http://professionals.collegeboard.com/k-12/prepare/springboard) What’s interesting is that to find out about Springboard, you have to go the site’s ‘K-12 Services’. Oh, gee, […]
Continue ReadingHow many of you like math? Of all the subjects I had to learn, Math was not my favorite. My students, also, weren’t huge fans. However, knowing math is crucial, we carried on and were successful. Common Core Standards and math has been written about repeatedly. So, I’m not going to tackle it in depth. […]
Continue ReadingRecently, Secretary Arne Duncan gave a twelve minute (just over the 12 minute mark) radio interview while in MA to help promote more new government grants, programs, and ‘wonderfulness’ of all things Common Core/Workforce related. I’ve included the radio link for you just below. I’ll be giving the interview, the “Diva” analyzing treatment! This radio […]
Continue ReadingSocrates and Plato would shudder if they were around today to see what Common Core Standards have done to critical thinking. I’d like to think they would be leading a protest of some epic proportion. I’m sure they could be successful at raising the people’s attention to the issue of usurping education. I’m pretty sure […]
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